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Online Rug Shopping

Posted on by D F

I used to hate going to stores and shopping around for big purchases. Especially when those big purchases involved my home design and furnishing. It was impossible to make decisions about those things without making a hundred trips to dozens of different places first. Now I can scan around the internet for whatever I want. What a relief.

I was feeling particularly relieved of shopping duty recently when my girlfriend suggested we get a handknotted area rug for the dinning room. I had never bought a rug before and she seemed so confident in herself. On the internet I was able to bone up on what makes an outstanding area rug as well as shop for one.

There was a time where online rug shopping would have seem like a crazy thing to do. The processes now for receiving and when necessary returning large items ordered on the internet is now so easy though that a major purchase like this can go off with out a hitch. I wouldn’t question the decision to furnish a whole house on the internet, so an area rug is hardly a big deal at all.

After a few hours my girlfriend and I found the perfect one. It looks amazing in our dinning room now and I didn’t have to ride the escalator at Macy’s to get it.

A Deep Interest In Area Rugs

Posted on by D F

I was over a friend’s house recently and could not help but stop everything to admire several silk Persian rugs he had in a few different rooms through out the house. Hors d’œuvres were served while I crawled along the floor of his study searching the intricacies of his hand knotted area rugs, and I love crab cakes. Drinks were poured while I used my camera-phone to photograph the area rug in his sun porch. Champagne might have been nice but I was too drunk off the craftsmanship to bother with it.

This happens to me fairly often. My wife thinks it is crazy how over taken by well crafted area rugs I can be sometimes, though she loved these particularly gorgeous carpets too. I just love a good area rug. I do not have many habits or hobbies but high quality are rugs. I don’t know where this interest stems from or where it is going but I think it’s a great hobby.

My friend and I spent the duration of the evening discussing online rug sales, hand knotting techniques, area rug placement and other rug related topics. It was a thrill to realize that our host just happened to be as serious a rug enthusiast as I was.